Improvement in printers  galleys



I M. McGABE.

- Printers Galley.

No. 209,497. Patented Oct. 29,1878

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MATTHEW McOABE, on BROOKLYN, new YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN PRINTERS GALLEYS.

Specification forming partof Letters Patent N0. 209,49 7, dated October 29, 1878 application filed September 6, 1878.

To all whom it may concern: I 7

Be itknown' that I, MAT HEW McOABE, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Printers Galleys; and that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

The invention consists in a combination of a longitudinally and laterally -moving sidestick, an adjusting screw attached to said stick, a ratchet attached to one of the rails of the galley, and a hinged pawl or brace at tached to the side-stick with a slotted head piece and the side rails of the galley-frame, whereby the same adjustment of the side-stick operates to draw the lines of the type together, as well as to move the type laterally.

The invention also consists in a certain combination, with the galley-frame, with the sidestick, and with a slug or foot-stick of peculiar construction, of a screw-rod and nuts arranged within the galley-frame, to assist in tightening up the type both longitudinally and laterally within the galley-frame, free from projection of the adjusting devices outside the rails of said frame.

In the accompanyingdrawing, Figure 1 represents a top view, partly in section, of a galley provided with my improvements. Fig. 2 is an end view of the foot of the galley. Fig. 3 is an end view of the head of the galley.

A represents the head-piece, and B B? the side rails of the galley-frame. G is a ratchettoothed metallic plate set into the inner surface of the side rail B. There may be any suitable number of these ratchet-plates.

D is the side-stick. E is a pawl, pivoted to the side-stick. It is here shown as resembling a two-leafed hinge, with one leaf rigidly secured to the side-stick D, and the other leaf engaging like a pawlwith the ratchet-plate G.

There may be any suitable number of pawls corresponding with the number of ratchetplates 0, and arranged opposite the same, as shown.

G is a screw, provided with a thumb-nut, g. Said screw passes transversely through a slot, .9, in the head-piece A of the galley-frame, and is attached at its inner end to the side-stick D.

The column of type being in place. on the galley, the side stick D is pressed closely the head -piece.

against it, and the pawl E is engaged with one of the teeth of the ratchet O. The nut g of the screw G' is then turned in a direction to tighten it against the head-pieceA, and the side-stick D is drawn longitudinally toward The pawl E having been first arranged diagonally toward the head of the galley, the drawing of the side-stick longitudinally in the same direction has the efl'ect of bringing said pawl more to ward a direct trans; verse position, causing itto bear harder against the side-stick and press it against the side of the column of type, and thus lock it securely.

The sliding slug or foot-stick consists of a bar, H, the ends of which terminate in two plates, h h bent to fit around three sidesof the rails of the galley-frame, and having their ends turned inward to form tongues M for engagement with grooves 11 b in the outer surfaces of said side rails B B (See Fig. 2.) By this means the slug or foot-stick may be made to slide with a parallel motion, and may be pressed up against the foot of I the column of type in the galley. On the upper sides of the plates h k are bosses J J, for facilitating the moving of the slug.

A screw-rod, K, has its ends rigidly attached to the inner surfaces of the two plates h k so as to lie parallel with the slug H. On this screwrod work two milled nuts, L L one of which is arranged to bear against the outer surface of the side-stick D, and the other is located near the rail B of the galley-frame. Between the latter nut, L and its contiguous plate It is interposed a washer-plate, M, having a shoulder, m, on the side toward the plate h, so as to bear against said plate both laterally and in a direction parallel with the length of the galley. By turning the nuts L L in one direction the nut L bears against the outer surface of the side-stick D, and thusassists in tightening it near the foot of the column, audit also securely holds in place the end of the slug H nearest to which it is located, while at the same time the nut 1L bears against the washer-plate M, pressing it against the plate h and holding the other end of the slug H firmly in place.

It is preferred to make the thread on the screw-rod K a left handed one, so that when the galley is held by the compositor up against his chest, and the nuts L L are turned, with their upper surfaces moving toward him, such operatlon of the nuts will have a tendency to tlghten or force up the slug against the foot of the column instead of to loosen it, as would be thecase with a right-hand threaded screw, requiring the upper surface of the nuts, which 1s the surface the compositor works, to move away from him.

From this description it will be seen that the attachment of the slug or foot-piece tothe galley, as described, not only provides for tlghtenlngup the lines of the type, but also for tightening up the type laterally in the galley also, that the nuts L L, being within the galley-frame and not exterior to its rails, two or more galleys may be placed close up against each other side to side. Furthermore, it will be seen that the side-stick D, in being tightened up, not only moves laterally, but also longltuchnally, and that in moving longitudinally 1t has a tendency to draw the lines of the type together. To obtain this double m0- t1on of the side-stick it is necessary that the ratchet-plate 0 should be'a fixed one or attached to the rail B.

Havingthus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent. is

1. In a printers galley, the combination of a longitudinally and laterally moving sidestick, an adjusting-screw attached to said side-stick, a ratchet attached to one of the rails of the galley, and a hinged or pivoted pawl attached to the side-stick, with the slotted'head-piece and the side rails of the galleyframe, substantially as and for the purposes herein described. 7

2. The combination, with the side .rails of the galley-frame, with the side-stick of the galley, and with a slug or foot-stick provided with plates partly surrounding said side rails and having tongues engaging with grooves therein, of a screw-rod and nuts arranged within the galley-frame on opposite sides of the latter, for tightening up the type both longitudinally and laterally within the galleyframe, essentially as described.

MATTHEW McOABE. Witnesses:

'1. J. KEANE,

FRED. HAYNES. 

